Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Monthly Archives: November 2024
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Most problems do not get solved. They get superseded by other concerns.
~ Thomas Sowell
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Campus Life at
California State University, East Bay
Book Recommendation
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
Campus Life at
the University of York
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The true way is along a rope that is not spanned high in the air, but only just above the ground. It seems intended more to cause stumbling than to be walked upon.
~ Franz Kafka
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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promises only; pain we obey.
~ Marcel Proust
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Democrats will tell you that they are the way they are because they’re trying to help Americans, because they know what’s best. But this was no more convincing to voters than a corporation’s insistence that the HR department exists to help employees. Absolutely no one believes that, of course. HR departments work for the people who hold the power, and they reinforce the company line, whatever that may be.
~ Mike Pesca
via The HR-ification of the Democratic Party
published by The Atlantic on November 12, 2024
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Book Recommendation
Attention Factory: The Story
of TikTok and China’s ByteDance
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The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man’s land between the various established fields.
~ Norbert Wiener
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